The use of immigration detention: a human rights perspective on the phenomenon

The use of immigration detention became very common in the last decades and the practice raised different question, for instance, whether human rights are respected or not. The first chapter gives a broad vision of what immigration detention is and the ways in which it can be practiced; moreover, the attention is placed on the management of the phenomenon in the European Union and Italy. The second chapter concentrates its attention on the framework on human rights, focusing first on specific bodies of the United Nations and then on regional instruments, that are relevant when dealing with the phenomenon. Finally, the third chapter deals with violation of human rights, giving a perspective on the importance of the prohibition of arbitrary detention and torture. Moreover, it centers on how different categories are affected differently by detention, based on sex, age, nationality and religion.